Articles by Falko Timme

About Falko Timme

Falko Timme is an experienced Linux administrator and founder of Timme Hosting, a leading nginx business hosting company in Germany. He is one of the most active authors on HowtoForge since 2005 and one of the core developers of ISPConfig since 2000. He has also contributed to the O'Reilly book "Linux System Administration".

• Running A MySQL-Based DNS Server: MyDNS

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: dns, mydns • Comments: 10

  Running A MySQL-Based DNS Server: MyDNS In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS, a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns. This has the advantage that you can easily use web-based frontends to administrate your DNS records. You could even write your own frontend, e.g. using PHP, to interact with the MyDNS database. MyDNS simply reads the records from the database, and it does not have to be restarted/reloaded when DNS records change or zones are created/edited/deleted! This is a major advantage.

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• How To Run Your Own Name Servers With ISPConfig And GoDaddy

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: dns, bind • Comments: 9

  How To Run Your Own Name Servers With ISPConfig And GoDaddy This tutorial shows how you can run your own name servers for domains that you register with GoDaddy. Of course, this works with every other registrar as well, although the procedure might differ a little bit. To do this, you need two servers with two different public IP addresses and with ISPConfig installed, and of course a GoDaddy account.

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• Installing MyDNS And The MyDNSConfig Control Panel On Fedora 8

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: dns, fedora, mydns • Comments: 5

  Installing MyDNS And The MyDNSConfig Control Panel On Fedora 8 In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS and MyDNSConfig on Fedora 8. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns. The advantage is that MyDNS simply reads the records from the database, and it does not have to be restarted/reloaded when DNS records change or zones are created/edited/deleted. A secondary nameserver can be easily set up by installing a second instance of MyDNS that accesses the same database or, to be more redundant, uses the MySQL master / slave replication features to replicate the data to the secondary nameserver.

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• Installing MyDNS And The MyDNSConfig Control Panel On Mandriva 2008.0

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: dns, mandriva, mydns • Comments: 0

  Installing MyDNS And The MyDNSConfig Control Panel On Mandriva 2008.0 In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS and MyDNSConfig on Mandriva 2008.0. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns. The advantage is that MyDNS simply reads the records from the database, and it does not have to be restarted/reloaded when DNS records change or zones are created/edited/deleted. A secondary nameserver can be easily set up by installing a second instance of MyDNS that accesses the same database or, to be more redundant, uses the MySQL master / slave replication features to replicate the data to the secondary nameserver.

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• Installing MyDNS And The MyDNSConfig Control Panel On CentOS 5.1

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, control panels, dns, mydns • Comments: 5

  Installing MyDNS And The MyDNSConfig Control Panel On CentOS 5.1 In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS and MyDNSConfig on CentOS 5.1. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns. The advantage is that MyDNS simply reads the records from the database, and it does not have to be restarted/reloaded when DNS records change or zones are created/edited/deleted. A secondary nameserver can be easily set up by installing a second instance of MyDNS that accesses the same database or, to be more redundant, uses the MySQL master / slave replication features to replicate the data to the secondary nameserver.

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• How To Install And Use The djbdns Name Server On Debian Etch

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: dns, debian, djbdns • Comments: 5

  How To Install And Use The djbdns Name Server On Debian Etch djbdns is a very secure suite of DNS tools that consists out of multiple parts: dnscache, a DNS cache that can be used in /etc/resolv.conf instead of your ISP's name servers and that tries to sort out wrong (malicious) DNS answers; axfrdns, a service that runs on the master DNS server and to which the slaves connect for zone transfers; and tinydns, the actual DNS server, a very secure replacement for BIND.

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• How To Patch BIND9 Against DNS Cache Poisoning On Debian Etch

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: dns, security, debian, bind • Comments: 5

  How To Patch BIND9 Against DNS Cache Poisoning On Debian Etch This article explains how you can fix a BIND9 nameserver on a Debian Etch system so that it is not vulnerable anymore to DNS cache poisoning.

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• Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Debian Etch

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: dns, debian, powerdns • Comments: 8

  Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Debian Etch This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Debian Etch system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS.

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• Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On CentOS 5.2

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, dns, powerdns • Comments: 2

  Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On CentOS 5.2 This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a CentOS 5.2 system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS.

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• Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Ubuntu 8.10

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: dns, ubuntu, powerdns • Comments: 4

  Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Ubuntu 8.10 This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on an Ubuntu 8.10 system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS.

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